Black Female Vampires in African American Women’s Novels, 1977–2011

She Bites Back

Kendra R. Parker (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

188 Seiten

2018
Lexington Books (Verlag)
978-1-4985-5317-9 (ISBN)

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This book critically situates the figure of the black female vampire within literary studies, cultural studies, gender studies, and critical race studies. It invites readers to take a closer look at the black female vampire figure and how that figure shapes and is shaped by cultural narratives about African American womanhood.

This book critically situates the figure of the black female vampire in several fields of study including literary studies, cultural studies, gender studies, and critical race studies. Black female vampires continue to appear as important literary devices and revealing indicators of cultural attitudes and trends about African American women’s bodies. This book examines five novels written by four African American women writers to investigate what it means to represent African American womanhood through the lens of vampirism, interrogate how these representations connect to or stem from historical representations of African American women, and explore how representations of black female vampires in African American women’s literature simultaneously negate, reinforce, or dismantle stereotypes of African American women.

Kendra R. Parkeris assistant professor of African American Literature in the Department of Literature at Georgia Southern University

Acknowledgments

Introduction: The First Bite

1. “I’m not the vampire he is; I give in return for my taking.” The Black Female Vampire Figure

in Octavia E. Butler’s Mind of My Mind

2. Jewelle Gomez’s The Gilda Stories: Black Female Vampire as a New American Monomyth

3. Intersectional Disempowerment and Know-Your-Place Aggression: A Vindication of the Rights of Anita Hill in Octavia E. Butler’s Fledgling?

4. “She’s not turning. She’s in flux”: The Ability/Disability System in L.A. Banks’s The Bitten

5. Rehabilitative Logic: Sex Work, Procreation, and Vampires in Pearl Cleage’s Just Wanna Testify

Afterword: The Final Bite

Bibliography

Erscheinungsdatum	10.05.2021
Zusatzinfo	1 b/w illustrations;
Sprache	englisch
Maße	160 x 229 mm
Gewicht	467 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	1-4985-5317-6 / 1498553176
ISBN-13	978-1-4985-5317-9 / 9781498553179
Zustand	Neuware